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It IS plain^ from Hyginus, who lived under the 
reigns of Trajan and Hadrian, that thefe equites fm- 
gulares made part of the emperor's body guards. 
For m delcnbing the difpofition of a Roman camp 
belais: Equites fraetonani locum accipiunt toere 
aextro friietorti,fingulares imferaloris latere fmiflro ■ 
quorum ft major numerus fuerit , utpote fmgularcs nc’ 
praetoriam ccc, poterum cl fmgularcs in ftt-ha 
praetonanorum tendere ( 1 ). They are liere called 
equites fingulares imperatoHs, as alfo in fome infer!- 
ptions ; but others for imperatoris have Jlvgujlt as 
ours; and others Caefark, ov Dommi ?io/lri i 
but that tranferibed above from Montfaucon has /lu- 
guflo Claudio ; and fome few only the general title 
of equites fingulares (2). Reinefius therefore was of 
the opinion, that tliey not only attended the empe- 
lois themfelves, but alfo the governors of the Roman 
provinces, in the like flation (3) ; tho Fabrctti, who 
has given us a large colledtion of thefe inferiptions 
declares, that he had met with no fiifficient evidence 
of this, either from antient writers or inferiptions (4,). 
bchelius, in his notes upon this paflage of Plyginus { 0 
thinks, that they were firft inhituted by Auguftus ’ 
and that Tacitus refers to them, when he fais : Ac- 
cejjit ala fmgularium excita olim a Vitellio^ de 'inde in 
partes Vefpafiani tranfgreja (6). And there is an 
. 7 - text is afterwards 
correded by R. Herm. Scheltus, edit. Amjiel 1660. 
(2) Gruter. pajjim. 
(3) Syntagm. infeript. antiq. claf. i, num. xvi. pag. 41. 
14) Infeript. antiq. pag. 
( 5 ) Png.^. 
(6) H'l/i. lib. iv. cap. 70. 
infeription 
